Causes and costs of a decade of litigation following emergency appendectomy in England

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1851-1858

  Mosedale, Thomas ^a   Nepogodiev, Dmitri ^b   Fitzgerald, J Edward F ^c   Bhangu, Aneel ^d  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c London Deanery   (United Kingdom)

^d General Surgery Registrar   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; COST; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALPRACTICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; ARTICLE; LEGAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

APPENDECTOMY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MALPRACTICE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880780022     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-013-1907-y     Document Type: Article

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